Unit11 Shipment第七组：赵亚东 田江波 何倩 王烨朋 李双全

Shipment covers rather a wide range of work

1.Buyers sending Shipment Instructions 

2.Sellers sending Shipping Advice  

3.Ways of setting the time of shipment 

4.Chartering ships  

5.Appointing shipping agent 

6.Arranging shipment 

• A letter of shipment covers the following parts:

• Introduce the matter concerned, the shipment of goods under the given order;

• Provide all the details of shipment that both party concern;

• Expect the response and state the action you will take as a result.

three ways of setting the time of shipment:

the shipment with a fixed period of time

( 定期装运 )

e.g. “shipment during September”,

“March shipment” ,

“shipment at or before the end of June”,

“shipment on or before Aug. 20”

or “shipment during Oct./ Nov.”

three ways of setting the time of shipment:

the shipment with an indefinite date （不定期装运）

e.g.

shipment within 30 days after the date of receipt of the letter of credit,

shipment subject to shipping space available

three ways of setting the time of shipment:

the shipment with a date in the near future

（近期装运） e.g. 立即装运 immediate shipment

即期装运 prompt shipment

尽快装运 shipment as soon as possible

• Shipping Advice contains

• the date and number of Bill of Lading

• the date and number of the Contract

• the names of commodities and their quantity and value

• the name of the carrying vessel

• the name of the shipping port/loading port

• the estimated time of departure (ETD)

• the name of the destination port

• the estimated time of arrival (ETA)

• Dear Sirs,• We are pleased to have received your L/C No. 4352,

covering Men’s Shirts No. 8975 under our Sales confirmation No. 96COT491 and inform you that shipment was made on S/S “Apollo” on August 3 at Guangzhou.

• Enclosed is a set of the duplicate shipping documents consisting of:

• 1) A Non-negotiable copy of Bill of Lading.• 2) A signed Invoice No.889• 3) Packing list.• 4) Certificate of Origin No.10001.• 5) Insurance Policy.

• Availing ourselves of this opportunity, we wish to assure you of our close cooperation.

• Dear Sirs,

• We are very sorry to inform you that the shipment during September covering your order No.253 is impossible to execute within the stipulated period on account of manufacturers labor shortage.

• The XYZ Co., with which your order was placed is suffering a serious labour shortage by recent rush of orders and general shortage of young workers.

• Every effort is being made to deliver the goods as requested. However, they say that one month delay of shipment is unavoidable. We ask, therefore, that you kindly approve the situation with 3% price discount as shown in the enclosed cable.

• Although this is beyond our control, we deeply apologize for the inconvenience caused you.

• Yours faithfully,